The For Later list gets longer and longer. Surely there must be some way of making it more worthwhile and less of an impossible dream. Sharing the titles added every week and some of the reasons why? Worth a try. This week they were: The age of innocence by Edith Wharton, because Katie Roiphe, in In…
The book stalker
I stalk books. I usually spot my quarry in a library. I take it home – mine, all mine. The library wants it back; I reluctantly return it. Next I do the equivalent of “the end of a relationship drive-by”: I stalk between the library shelves, pick up the book and stroke it a bit. If…
Hillmorton Network News
Hillmorton Network News is a collaborative project between Christchurch City Libraries, Hillmorton High School and Spreydon & Heathcote Community. It's aim is to inspire and engage students and celebrate student, school and Community success via a TV broadcast to a wider audience. We want to promote their 'Proud' moments via our website, YouTube and school…
Minecraft Library
Lydia from the New Brighton Library minecraft club has built this amazing Minecraft Library. Check out the video below. As we move toward building more "actual" Libraries in the city, ideas about what customers would like to see in them are really valuable. If you are a minecraft user and think you can build an…
3.D. Printing at the Library
In the last round of holiday programmes we ran our very first course that involved using a 3.D. printer to print out work that the students produced in a variety of ways. Trimble SketchUp was used to build a 3.D. Keyring and we also used "Tinkercad" as well as a Minecraft server called "Printcraft" to…
Coincidences happen, don’t they???
When Mister Bishi, aka Dave, was a stripling, he and a friend left Sydney and travelled overland to the U.K. They were at a bookstall in Connaught Circus in the middle of New Delhi (along with goodness knows how many other thousands) when he overheard some English travellers with very distinctive Birmingham accents (Brummies to fellow…
The art of slimming
Are you in a wintry rut? Sitting in your little corner: fat, demotivated and glum. If you’ve given exercise its chance, and it’s too cold to diet, try Art. That is correct, Art can make you slim. Here’s how: Ease into this gently. First establish Art as a pleasurable activity. What makes you happy? Food. There is…
Fickle Fiction
Happy Birthday, Iris Murdoch! She was pretty much up there with Doris Lessing for a while and was worthy of being played by Dame Judi Dench in the biopic about her tragic battle with Alzheimer’s. But then Lessing won the Nobel Prize and it seems Murdoch has gone out of fashion and few people read her now…
RIP Nadine Gordimer, South Africa’s grande dame of literature
Nadine Gordimer, the first South African author to be awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature, has died aged 90.
Neverbored
I have a friend who says that she hasn't a creative bone in her body. Secretly I doubt that because I simply can't imagine being uncreative. I, on the other hand, have tried making so many different things (with varied success I'll admit) that its actually difficult to remember them all: sewing (contemporary, furnishings and…
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